irreducibly
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- adverb
- /ˌɪrəˈdjuːsəblɪ/
- Ethically, what were the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust but the irreducibly other?
Examples
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She argued that human rights are irreducibly essential to our society, and must be upheld in every context.
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The concept of love is often perceived as irreducibly complex, involving emotions and bonds that cannot be simplified.
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At which point something else resonates: is this really so irreducibly stark a binary?
Blog text (1) -
Decadent writers who reveal planetary scale as irreducibly multiple offer an important point of entry for such a project.
Academic text (2016) -
My arguments about coevolution do not assume that any of the individual co-dependent traits are irreducibly complex.
Blog text (4) -
Here we are irreducibly at the roots, and we had better see to it that what we have learned by rote we do not use to frustrate our children's unarguable instincts and so alienate them from their own musical beings.
Academic text (2014) -
By necessity, the finished products will be invariably, irreducibly modern; not only because they are the first non-indie (sort of) releases in their subgenres for more than a decade, but because they are designed by present-day developers very much living in the here and now.
Blog text (19) -
The artist believed that her paintings captured the irreducibly genuine aspects of human experience, beyond any surface interpretation.
How Fundamental
Surface Forms
Morphology
irreducibly = irreducible (transparent) = ir + reduc + ible + ly
Formed from 'irreducible' + '-ly'; the negation 'ir-' plus 'reducible' yields a clear meaning that is straightforwardly adverbialized.
Etymology
Irreducibly begins with ir- meaning 'not' and uses reduce, a word that means 'make smaller' and comes from an old root meaning 'lead back'. So irreducibly means 'in a way that cannot be made smaller or simpler'.